Kim Moodie

Research

Interests

My research is primarily studio based but I have curated or co-curated nine exhibitions. My studio practice is drawing and painting focused with occasional forays into digital imaging and sculpture. I work primarily with India ink, and acrylic and oil paints. My subject matter concentrates on the dissection of narrative structures, the impact of symbols, and ahistorism. Stylistically my work can be categorized as horror vacui and neo -expressionistic.

Following is a personal statement about recent drawings:

“My drawings envision a dense mass of symbols and figures moving through a nether world, a psychological landscape like space. I believe many symbols are losing their potency as they are assimilated into the story telling mediums of popular culture. It appears that their meanings become lost or diffused as they become an element in contemporary mass entertainment. I want my drawings to be enticing, engaging through their horror vacui surface. But I also hope that they have a feeling of insatiable melancholy, a sense that something intangible is lost in so much.”

Current Projects

1] A series of four to seven 36 x 73 in. India ink drawings examing the visual properties and meaning implications of an even plane of a huge number of fantastic figures and symbols. Each drawing has a different narrative underlying the field of imagery. 2] A series of 30 x 22 in. expressionistic brush and ink drawings utilizing the dried residue left in the bottles of ink used in the above drawings. These drawings examine concerns contingent to adventure, exploration and environmental consequences. 3] A series of acrylic and oil paintings investigating the border between representation and abstraction, and the relative inferences of meaning.